“My work is an ongoing question: how to build a common world when the one we inhabit I oppose. Escaping the confines of one reality and entering an alternate reality is often where I find meaning within the complexity of the mind and the emotions it houses. I intersect working from observation with exploring internal spaces like memory, tracings and narratives of painting.”

Renée Bouchard, b.1976, was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner and Puffin Foundation grants in 2023 after receiving an MFA in visual art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2021. She received her BFA in painting, with honors, from the Maine College of Art in 1999. Other grants include: the Vermont Creation Grant and the Robert Rauschenburg Power of Art Grant. She has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Cooper Union and at Collar Works in Troy, NY. Her painting, Anonymous Citizen in Blue-Green was recently included in the Painting at Night exhibition at Russell Sage College’s Opalka Gallery where she discussed the exhibition on the Artist/Mother Podcast. Her work has been reviewed in Art New England.

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